Worst job ever

This is my favorite piece of art I saw this year. http://art.thewalters.org/detail/11711/tokaido-gojusan-tsui/

A man goes out on his boat on the last night of the year, a night when its unlucky to go on the sea, and meets a monster. The monster asks him to think of the most horrible thing in the world.

Tokuzo yells back, "My profession is the most horrible thing I know!" The monster is apparently satisfied with this answer and disappears along with the storm.

Awesome.

Pooping on the Beach

This is probably the oddest thing I've seen today. It's postcards of a famous French person pooping on the beach in 1898. I have no explanation. http://fuckyeahvictorians.tumblr.com/post/1537005170/turnofthecentury-in-1898-the-parisian-art NSFW, or at least most works.

Art and Disability

Interesting piece about art and disability as viewed by an architect who became disabled later in life. This article also debunks some of the ridiculous lies spouted by Rand Paul.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/17/AR2010061705483.html

Is it art?

Years ago, when I was sixteen, I was taking a computer graphics class in college. This was in 1980, well before everyone could do computer graphics. If I recall correctly we were actually programming some of the stuff in machine code. But I digress.

We had a neighbor who ran an art gallery and when she found out I was drawing things with the computer she got upset and said that I could never make art with the computer because you can't make art with a machine. When I pointed out that she was running a photography exhibit she said that when you take a photo your hands shake and that's what makes it art. Since you can't shake the computer the computer can't make art. Which is a definition, I suppose, but not one that worked for me.

In the ensuing thirty years I've seen some beautiful art that exists only in pixels. I hope she did too. It would be kind of sad to miss out on an entire new medium because of some preconceived notions.

America's most wanted painting

This isn't most wanted as in posters you see at the post office. This is most wanted as in these guys took a survey and asked people what they most liked in a painting and then made one with all the elements in it.

My favorite part is the wading deer but the George Washington figure is also quite nice.

More about the painting can be found here.